DiGIR is a protocol and a set of tools for linking a community of independent databases into a single, searchable “virtual” collection. The DiGIR protocol was developed by BRC Informatics in collaboration with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley and the California Academy of Sciences. DiGIR is currently a public open source project with an international team of contributers, including Centro de Referência em Informa&...
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DiGIR is a protocol and a set of tools for linking a community of independent databases into a single, searchable “virtual” collection. The DiGIR protocol was developed by BRC Informatics in collaboration with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley and the California Academy of Sciences. DiGIR is currently a public open source project with an international team of contributers, including Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA), Brazil. DiGIR provides a uniform interface for managing XML-based search requests to a community of dissimilar data sources. Each institution in the DiGIR community implements an interface application called a DiGIR provider. The DiGIR provider hides the details of the underlying database and presents a uniform “virtual” view of the data to the network.
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